Filepro and Samba

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Filepro and Samba


> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:41:15PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
>> No offense, nothing at all personal, and I say this with the sole intent 
>> of
>> trying to prevent you from digging a hole for yourself as I've seen 
>> others
>> do over the years.
>
> But if you *do* dig yourself a hole, my number's in the sig; I'm sure
> Mark will quote you a rate on request, too.  :-)
>
> That said, there is one point I don't think Mark made: "is Linux a
> better choice than Windows as a server OS for the things it can do?"
>
> Whoa, yeah.  Hands down.

Aren't there file lock behaiour options you need to change from the stock 
defaults in samba for windows filepro to work ok?

I have a couple older customers who swapped out ther win boxes without ever 
telling us until after it all puked.

When I got in and peiced together what really happened, that was the main 
thing that fixed it was I twiddled some smb.conf options for the filepro 
share that changed lock behaviour and maybe default dir mask and filemask 
to.
There are several lock related options and their actions and combined 
interactions were somewhat subtle as I recall.
This was a couple years ago and it was before samba 3 for one thing, so 
perhaps the defaults are different now and don't need tweaking out of the 
box. Could also have been distro supplied defaults related not stock samba 
defaults related. Don't recal the dist.

I say yes it is a perfectly well working system and no reason not to go 
ahead and swap out netware for linux in his case. It works great and is 
reliable and easy to maintain, repair, migrate, backup, restore, etc... once 
it's working.

But only if he takes Marks advise. Have not only a good linux guy set it all 
up, but preferrably one whos familiar with filepro and specifically 
Windows-filepro, and specifically ready to spot and resolve issues like what 
I described above about unexpected problems with file locks on the samba 
share that may only affect filepro even though the share seems to work fine 
for sharing excel docs etc...

And even though I went through exactly all that and resolved it and that 
site hasn't called me back in years and the results of what I did are still 
chugging away and are now proven by that, I do not suggest to call me for 
this. That was one site. I use linux a lot now but it's all for unix/linux 
stuff and have just about 0 use for samba and don't have it running on any 
of my own boxes so far. It is running at a couple clients but they are using 
it for general file sharing and printer sharing, their filepro is native 
linux filepro, so no windows-filepro sharing specialness.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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